The King of Town becomes tyrannical and institutes an email tax. For not paying said tax, Strong Bad is placed under house arrest with an exploding collar strapped around his neck. After Strong Bad escapes, he announces that Strong Badia will secede from Free Country USA, and attempts to rally his fellow citizens into joining him. When everyone instead goes off to form their own countries, Strong Bad must unite the fractured nations under one banner (namely, his) in order to complete his mission to overthrow The King of Town's "fat-thority".

{The screen shows "In the next episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People" and fades to Strong Bad walking in from the right. The backdrop is the Strong Badian Flag.}

STRONG BAD: Friends and losers, my long incarceration has taught me that we can never be truly free until we reject the fat-thority of the King of Town. Hence to forthwith, I shall only refer to him as the Of Town. As of today, Strong Badia is its own, independent nation. Onward to Strong Badia, Strong Badia the Free!

{Record scratch is heard and Homestar comes into view}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, that's the name of this—

STRONG BAD:{quickly} Shut up. {Homestar becomes sad}

{The screen shows "STRONG BADIA the FREE" and a no sign is covering the Municipality logo. The screen then changes to "Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: New episode every month!"}

{Strong Mad is seen behind a cutout of a tarantula holding a guitar with the Taranchula logo underneath, and a red spider cutout in one hand and blue spider cutout in another}

On the PC version, costume items unlocked in Homestar Ruiner carry over to Strong Badia the Free (these must be unlocked, either by getting them in Homestar Ruiner, or by editing the Windows Registry). On the Wii version, the costumes are automatically unlocked, regardless of if you have the costumes on a Homestar Ruiner save file (or even if you don't have a Homestar Ruiner save file at all).

When visiting the King of Town at his castle in the extended play mode of Homestar Ruiner, he threatens to tax Strong Bad. Strong Bad responds with, "That sounds...ominous."

The preview was added to the Nintendo Channel on September 15, 2008 under the title "Strong Bad Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free"

This is the only episode where all twelve main characters appear onscreen; Homsar's only other appearance was Baddest of the Bands, which lacked The Poopsmith. 8-Bit is Enough also lacks Pom Pom.

One of the emails Strong Bad receives is from Athens, Georgia, but Strong Bad pronounces GA as an unemphasized "Guh". The Brothers Chaps are from Georgia, and Mike went to the University of Georgia, which is in Athens. Their sports mascot is a live bulldog named UGA, pronounced "UH-guh".

Pom Pom is notably absent in the Maps & Minions game at the Of Town's Castle.

If you use the Glowsticks on Strong Bad in Pompomerania with The Cheat present, Strong Bad will say it's no time for a rave even though one is in progress.

When you talk to Strong Sad and talk about his constitution in Bleak House, he will show his flag. However, if you already burned the flag, he will act like if you never burned it and the camera will face where it was formerly placed.

The Cheat uses a yield sign to write the name of his country in Strong Badia. On the map, the area cut out of Strong Badia is in the shape of the stop sign.

In The Interview, Homestar states with absolute certainty that The Cheat would win in a fight against Strong Sad even if it was stacked in Strong Sad's favor. However, in the Maps & Minions Game, Strong Sad wins in conflicts against The Cheat.

On the Wii Shop Channel download page in Europe, Videlectrix is misspelled as "Videoelectrix".

If you skip speaking with Strong Sad about Cold Ones until after he has had his pretendix removed, he will complain about his alleged pretendicitis despite having already had the surgery for it.

If you activate the mysterious pylon in the Homsar Reservation before making the super-glowy drink in Pompomerania, Strong Bad calls out to remind the astronauts to give him ice cream he has never asked for.

When Strong Sad is commenting on one of the papier-mâché skulls, he claims it's "this week's jumble", but the subtitles read "last week's jumble".

Sometimes Bubs will be stuck facing the black market door instead of the concession stand. As a result, the black market door will not open, and Bubs will be facing the wall when you try to talk to him from the front of the stand.

When lighting certain objects on fire, sometimes the flames do not appear until Strong Bad leaves and returns to the area. This glitch is known to occur with the bush on the Homsar Reservation, the kimono in Club Technochocolate, the smoke detector and messy pile in Bleak House, and the skulls in Country.

Sometimes, when in Extended Play, attempting to save to Slot 3 will result in the game freezing, buzzing and require a hard reset.

While in Bleak House, examine the bookcase in Strong Sad's room while outside the room. Then walk by his bed. While Strong Bad talks about the bookcase, he may slide towards the bed without moving his feet.

Digging up the Strong Badia shirt will cause another hole to appear in Strong Badia, in front of the flagpole, near the cinder block.

An error in Math Kickers will give you the rank of "Über-Pope" or "Uber-Pope" if you exceed a score of 4000 points, with everything else already maxed out. In the Wii version, the rank is "Über-Pope" (however, the Ü appears as a box) and is "Uber-Pope" in the PC version.

The reason the Ü appears as a box is because it is an irregular character. In systems that can only support regular characters, they will appear as a different symbol (usually a box) other than the irregular character.

If you save in an area and play the game again from where you left off, then it will sometimes cause characters to return to that area, usually all the ones from a certain time in the game. For example, if you do this in Marzistar (a.k.a. Homezipan), it will make Pom Pom, Strong Sad and occasionally Strong Mad holding The Cheat reappear in their pre-castle attack positions.

After making it to Marzistar, if you return to the Homsar Reservation, Strong Sad and Homsar will no longer be there. However, when you click on the trunk, Strong Bad will still talk to Strong Sad's voice as if Strong Sad was there. Also, the bush will no longer be on fire if it was previously lit, and when lit again Homsar will say "AaAaAa...Nice try alligator!", even though he is no longer there.

Skipping the speech before starting the Peace Draft seems to make the transition in to a straight cut to black with a small slice of cut out showing the screen. This stays a few seconds into the scene before stopping. It also happens at the end of the scene, and it appears when looking at the map.

Playing Math Kickers will sometimes freeze the game, causing the game to emit a strange buzzing noise and require a hard reset.

Pausing the game with the "home" button during transcript causes the last word in a phrase to be repeated.

One of Homsar's responses, "I'm a song from the '60s!", is lifted from interview, as is "'Twas the pride of the Peaches!", which Strong Bad says after being enlightened to Homsar's ways, claiming that it is the answer to everything.

Homestar nearly breaks the fourth wall with his statement of "Hey, that's the name of this—" (presumably going to finish with "episode" or "game"), but was stopped by Strong Bad, who tells him to shut up.

Upon speaking to Marzipan, Strong Bad calls her "Marzip0wned ('Marzi-puh-owned'), or however you pronounce that". This is reminiscent of his confusion over "p0wned" in Teen Girl Squad Issue 10.

Bubs's nation's capital of Concessionstantinople is a reference to Constantinople, the former name of Istanbul.

The bonus costume that Strong Bad unlocks is the Max skull-and-crossbones T-shirt, which can actually be bought on Telltale Games' online store.

Homestar's "letter" back to Marzipan, detailing the siege on the Of Town's castle is presented in a style similar to Ken Burns' 1990 documentary The Civil War, with sepia-toned backgrounds and violin music in the background.

Coach Z saying that "they've all overbid" and wagering a dollar after being picked in the draft is a reference to the game show The Price is Right.

Homestar and Marzipan dividing their land is a direct reference to the division of Germany and its capital, Berlin, complete with Checkpoint The Cheat substituting for Checkpoint Charlie (aka the Berlin Wall).

When Homestar says "What is my major malfunction", it is most likely a reference to the movie Full Metal Jacket.

Strong Mad says "None shall pass", a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, if Strong Bad should attempt to cross the stone bridge before fighting the Taranchula standee.

Strong Bad says the King of Town's fridge-throne is Energy Star compliant.

One of the lines when highlighting the "preview" option in the Main Menu refers to Martin Luther King and his "I Have a Dream" speech.

While worrying about his having an inflammation of his pretendix, Strong Sad fears that he may have a "rumble in [his] tumble." This refers to Winnie the Pooh, who, when he gets hungry, claims to have a "rumbly in [his] tumbly."

One rank is "Secretary of the Posterior". This is one title Max can convey to Superball in "Abe Lincoln Must Die".

There is a line in one of the King of Town's emails about food that says, "There's an extra tuppence in it for you if you hurry." This is a reference to A Christmas Carol, when Ebenezer Scrooge offers a boy a small amount of money to come back with a prized turkey, and an extra tuppence if he hurries.

Homestar says that Marty Benedetto has been classified "4-H". This is a mangling of the 4-F classification under the Selective Service System and a reference to the 4-H.

When the player tries to enter Strong Mad's room, Strong Bad says that it "should be cleaned out in a month or so", referring to how that room is accessible in the next episode, which came out a month later.

Coach Z's sudden obsession for Marzipan at the end of the game carries over to Episode 3.